You just know every single one of them were donning "wacky" feather boas and/or tiaras and on their way to (or returning from) a gay club.
And yes, very sad and tragic indeed.

They had a far hotter time than they bargained for!

Too%20soon%3F

How the hell did it happen? How were they trapped inside?

Limos don't generally burst into flames do they? With all those doors, why couldn't they escape? Something is missing here.

This girl is on Fire! And that girl & that girl & that girl & That Girl!

Alicia%20K.%20%26%20Marlo%20T.

R10, I shouldn't have laughed out loud at that, but I did.

Just wait, it's California, so there will soon be new regulations requiring emergency exits on limos.

Aren't yall who respond to cases like these worried about karma?

[quote] Limos don't generally burst into flames do they? With all those doors, why couldn't they escape? Something is missing here.
take a look at the picture of the limo. There are four doors in a stretch limo. Two are up front where the driver is and two doors are in the back near the trunk. The trunk is what caught fire

Isn't there also a sunroof?

I bet those botches were using a single pot meth cooker.

Freebase accident.

Richard%20P.

Stretch limos can have a long span before the doors.
The final conclusion will be passenger stupidity.

Stupid%20Kills

Something tells me drug use will be involved.

It seems like one of those deaths from a Six Feet Under pre-credit sequence. Only much worse and much more unrealistic.

Were these the real housewives of some place? Were they taking the limo to make room for a camera recording them simultaneously?

If you look at the one or two pictures out there of the car in flames, you'll note the back end of the limo seems unusually low to the ground.
I suspect the car was overloaded, which may have caused something to damage the fuel line or gas tank resulting in a gas leak; at which point, it just took a spark to set off a flash fire which came up and around the bottom of the car and the doors, blocking the exit.

R27. Probably fat assed brood sows

Far from it, JUst read report on SF Examiner site, they were phillipinos.
One was a new bride, and it was a shower for her. She died.

Yeah, I think there were nine ladies in there plus the driver. If The ladies were heavyset and each person weighed 200 lbs. you're looking at too much weight. 2000 lbs.

I just read on newspaper site that limos that long tend to "bottom out" through use more quickly than the average vehicle (which makes sense) and makes the fuel tank vulnerable. The passengers in the back were sitting on a full tank of gas probably.
I love how this went from "they must have been cooking meth doing/something suspicious in the car" to "it must have been their combined weight that killed them" once you found out the were Filipinos. Typical dearth of logic on DL. Regardless, you all want to believe the fraus bring death and destruction on themselves and anything associated with them.

Do I hear any votes for fat-assed Filipinos cooking meth? Maybe you're all right!

So someone stood there and took pictures instead of running over and opening the door?
At that point just the trunk is on fire. What assholes.

I think it's ridiculous there was just one small door (probably on both sides) over the wheel well, which is also where the gas tank is. Four people got out, which means the difficulty was exiting the vehicle, not that they panicked. Sparks from a loose tailpipe (as I recall the San Mateo bridge has noise bumps every few yards) probably ignited the gas tank.

They should have smashed out the windows.

R33 The bride was Fillipino. Asians are not known for their charity. If you remember last year, a Chinese kid was abandoned on a freeway in China. He was ignored and eventually run over.
They were headed to a bridal party. You can imagine the amount of hairspray and silk they had on which go up in flames quick.

The responses on this thread are really disgusting. Would you post them if your real name and photo were next to your heartless, unfunny response? Don't think so. Truly disgraceful.

[quote] Maybe it was caused by early Santa Ana winds. The bride will now save some money with 5 less guests.
R24 - The bride died. Her family will now be spending their money on her funeral.

What a lot of nasty female-hating racist posters on this thread

[quote] Yeah, I think there were nine ladies in there plus the driver. If The ladies were heavyset and each person weighed 200 lbs. you're looking at too much weight. 2000 lbs.
They were Filipinas. They are all tiny.

A guy who owned an auto welding shop once told me he'd never ride in a stretch limo because they're dangerous. Apparently stretch limos aren't actually built that way, they're normal-sized vehicles that have been taken apart and had extra sections welded onto them. That makes them vulnerable to breaking apart during collisions. I'm guessing this sagging phenomenon must be another issue.

If it's been welded improperly, could it sag?

Once I was in this sketchy limo for an event and the driver basically locked us in the car so we couldn't get out. I don't know if it was for a safety reason or what, but I was kind of scared. I wonder if it was similar in this case that they were locked in the car and couldn't get out.

Filipinas can be chubby but not super obese. They're short, so 150 lbs make them look really large.

Damn! This is my fear come true. I'm always scared that my car will suddenly burst into flames, either at the instant I switch on the ignition or while driving down the freeway. Intellectually I thought it was irrational and that it was just my emotions, but now I'm gonna be worried driving tomorrow. :-/

Until I looked up a picture of a limo, I thought they were lined with doors on both sides. Nope. The "traditional" limo pic I found looks like this.

[quote]We'll never know what's on their melted iPods.
We can assume Modern English "I'll Melt With You."

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire

I bet they were doing drugs in there and started the fire.

I don't think they were doing drugs in there, they're Filipinos, not a big meth/drug group. Heavily into god & Catholicism, I mean HEAVILY.
OTOH, the lack of doors in a limo is really bad. So I'm hoping the CA legislature does something about it.

To be prank, dey patalities were dey pinal straw in dey propessional libery serbice in San Prancisco.
It's dere own pault.

Concepcion

Hot Time In The City indeed.

Lots of people in the Philippines use meth.

Were they freebasing in the back or smoking crack?

I AM lmao at R1!

Classic

Someone's race has nothing to do with what weight they can be. Anyone can be super skinny or morbidly obese.
This is one of the most racist conversations I've ever seen.

Filipinos never miss an opportunity to make an easy buck, you can bet the first thing they did was call their attorney.

Talk about hot bbq!!

I love how all of you queens are making fun of fraus and how they cause their death because they are fat. Well all of you getting fucked in the ass without a condom and your promiscuity get all of you queens killed.

r58, finish your super size extra value meal with a diet coke.

That's the world we live in, R33. Many people would stand there and take pictures/videos of a child abduction with the hopes of getting it on the local evening news, or even better a million YouTube hits.

What was on their Ipods?

r24 the bride was one of the dead women

Samoans tend to be on the hefty side. I don't think I've ever seen a thin Samoan. Inuits are also pretty fat.

[quote]Five women, including a new bride, were killed late Saturday when fire engulfed a stretch limousine carrying them to a party on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge over the San Francisco Bay, police said.
It is a pity that editors apparently no longer exist. Did anyone else notice the horrid sentence structure that began the article? I believe it is safe to assume -- despite what the authors wrote -- that the party was not on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. But rather:
[quote]Five women, including a new bride, were killed late Saturday on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge over the San Francisco Bay when fire engulfed a stretch limousine carrying them to a party, police said.

[quote]The responses on this thread are really disgusting. Would you post them if your real name and photo were next to your heartless, unfunny response? Don't think so. Truly disgraceful.
That's why I think we should use Facebook Connect like other message boards where your full name and photo appears. And your message also appears in your friends newsfeeds.

They don't know what the women died from yet.
Four other occupants escaped with injuries including burns or smoke inhalation, California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel said. The driver escaped unharmed.
Montiel said the women, all in their 30s and 40s, were "probably killed by the fire,” but the cause of death was not immediately clear.

It was not a bride-to-be. She was already married.
Among those who perished was 31-year-old Neriza Fojas, for whom the bridal shower was being thrown, the San Fransico Chronicle reported. Fojas was recently married in the United States but was planning to travel to her native Philippines to hold a ceremony in front of family next month.

[quote]They don't know what the women died from yet.
I'm guessing it's not cancer.

Speculation is leaked fuel line due to the intense conflagration.

How does a fuel line leak?

Limo company downgraded on Yelp from 4 stars to 2.

[quote]The bride was Fillipino. Asians are not known for their charity.
For chrissakes, they were Filipinos not fucking Koreans. Filipinos are usually a friendly, charitable lot. Don't assume all Asians are the same.

[quote]That's why I think we should use Facebook Connect
Pray, kindly fuck off.

Woo-hoo!

Vicki

The women who survived are all in their 30s and 40s.

I don't understand why they couldn't just open the doors and get out?

R77, there was only 1 door to the passenger cabin, which was by the rear wheel where the fire was. Three of the ladies managed to escape through this door, but suffered burns. Another woman escaped by climbing through the divider window that separated the passenger cabin from the driver cabin. The five women who perished were found close to this divider, so it appears they were trying to escape via this route, but were overtaken by the either smoke or the flames.

Oh, Smitty! You always tell the funniest stories!

Karen Walker

Hey girls, Sharon knows how to make flaming Kamikazes...

[quote] The women who survived are all in their 30s and 40s.
Youth kills

[quote] They don't know what the women died from yet.
I believe it was a false terrorist act set up by the FBI

Zubeidat%20Tsarnaev

Another bridal party death as woman falls from bus in Kansas
By Kevin Murphy; KANSAS CITY, KANSAS | Mon May 6, 2013 1:03pm EDT
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - A woman fell out of a bachelorette party bus onto a busy freeway in Kansas and died when she was struck by at least three vehicles on Saturday, the same night five women in a bridal party reportedly died in California when their limousine caught fire.
Jamie N. Frecks, 26, tumbled onto the highway and was struck by at least three other vehicles, Kansas Highway patrol spokesman Howard Dickinson said Monday. Frecks, one of 17 women on the bus, fell into the path of traffic on Saturday night, said a patrol report. The bride-to-be also was on the bus.
"It's just a bad situation," Dickinson said. "When anything falls out of a truck or a bus, whether it's a body or a roll of carpet, it's very hard to avoid, especially at night."
The accident in the Kansas City metropolitan area happened on the same night as media reported that five women in California in a bridal party died when their limousine caught fire. The bride was among those killed, the California media said.
Two of the cars that struck Frecks did not stop, according to the patrol report. Police are looking for the drivers of those vehicles as part of the investigation, Dickinson said.
Police have impounded the bus, Dickinson said. The 17-passenger bus has a side door near the rear that Frecks fell out of for unknown reasons, Dickinson said.
None of the women in the bus wore seat belts, but that is not required by law, Dickinson said. The driver of the bus was wearing a seatbelt, according to the report.

Driver in fatal limo fire confused by ‘smoke’ warning from passengers
By: John S. Marshall The Associated Press, Published on Mon May 06 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Investigators are trying to determine why a stretch limousine burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay bridge and trap five of the nine women inside on a girls’ night out, including a newlywed bride.
It happened late Saturday night as the Lincoln Town Car crossed the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge on the south end of the bay.
One of the women complained to driver Orville Brown about smoke, and by the time he pulled over and got out, the back of the limo was engulfed. The bride and eight friends were still inside.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the 46-year-old driver was confused when one of the women knocked on the partition and complained of smelling smoke.
“They had the music up in the back, and I figured she was asking, 'Can I smoke?'” Brown told the Chronicle. “I said, 'The owner doesn’t allow smoking in the car, and we only have four minutes to the destination.’”
It was just after 10 p.m. on the San Mateo Bridge. Less than 15 seconds passed before the women knocked again, Brown said.
This time, when he rolled down the partition, they were shouting, “Smoke, smoke!” and “Pull over, pull over!”
Passersby quickly pulled three to safety, though two were in critical condition Monday. One woman managed to squeeze through the partition between the passenger section and the driver's compartment, Brown told authorities.
But five others, including the bride whose marriage they were celebrating, became trapped.
The five were found dead as firefighters doused the vehicle — all huddled near the partition, apparently unable to squeeze through.
“My guess would be they were trying to get away from the fire and use that window opening as an escape route,” said San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault, who also relayed some of the comments the driver made to investigators.
The San Mateo Fire Department was looking into the cause of the fire, while the coroner's office was working with the California Highway Patrol to determine if anything criminal occurred.
“We don't believe there” was, Foucrault said.
Relatives told the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News that one of the dead was Neriza Fojas, 31, a registered nurse from Fresno who recently wed and was planning to travel to her native Philippines to hold another ceremony before family. Her friends in the limousine were fellow nurses.
Brown, 46, of San Jose, told investigators he picked the women up in Oakland and was taking them across the bridge to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City. Fojas' sister, Rosalyn Bersamin, told the Chronicle that after a night out on the town, Fojas and her friends were heading to the hotel to party with her new husband.
“She was a hard worker, a loving sister,” a sobbing Bersamin said.
Aerial video shot after the fire showed about one-third of the back half of the limousine had been scorched. Its taillights and bumper were gone and it appeared to be resting on its rims, but the remainder of the vehicle didn't appear to be damaged.
A photo taken by a witness and broadcast on KTVU-TV showed flames shooting from the back of the limo.
Brown's brother told the Chronicle the flames spread before he could help all the women escape.
“He told me, 'Man, it was so fast.' He said, 'I've never seen anything like it in my life.'“
“He kept saying, 'I should have done more, I should have done more,” he added.
The brother said that Brown is an experienced commercial driver who has operated big rigs and moving trucks and has a clean record.
Medical examiners will identify the victims by using dental records. Foucrault said the autopsies will include toxicology tests, as well as examinations into whether any accelerant such as alcohol or gasoline was found on the bodies.
[more...]

[...continued]
The CHP said the four other women who escaped the fire were being treated at nearby hospitals for burns and smoke inhalation: Mary G. Guardiano, 42, of Alameda; Jasmine Desguia, 34, of San Jose; Nelia Arrellano, 36, of Oakland; and Amalia Loyola, 48, of San Leandro.
Desguia and Loyola were listed in critical condition, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for Valley Medical Center. The condition of Arrellano, who was taken to another hospital, was not known.
A spokeswoman for Community Medical Center in Fresno said one or more of its employees were in the limo.
The company that operated the limo was identified as Limo Stop, which offers service through limousines, vans and SUVS.
The company issued a statement saying it “will do everything possible to investigate and assist authorities in determining the cause of this fire in order to bring forth answers and provide closure to (the) victims and their families.”
According to records from the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates limousine companies, Limo Stop is licensed and insured.

[quote]One woman managed to squeeze through the partition between the passenger section and the driver's compartment, Brown told authorities. The five were found dead as firefighters doused the vehicle — all huddled near the partition, apparently unable to squeeze through.
Yep--fat.

Damn. With six you get eggroll.

They just need to come out and say that this was a carload of Filipina crackheads and they were all freebasing.

F and F R91

Don't be so over-sensitive, R93.
Joking is what we do here.
And R91 made me LOL.

Something is fishy

I assumed they were all texting each other about the smoke and fire in the vehicle and therefore didn't make it out.
Such a tragedy.
And R91, if serious, needs to kumain aso dumi. And choke on it.

You queens aren't fooling anybody. Like you actually care that 5 women lost their lives, including a bride, in such a tragic way. Buncha punks.

The Home Health Care AIde market just got a little smaller!

I just get enraged when I read accounts of fatal fires. I'm not talking about high-rises, but single family homes or couple-story apartment buildings. They all have windows- knock them out. Jump! A broken leg is better than severe burns or death.
Not to be crass, but it really does seem to be a test of your IQ/resourcefulness.
"This time, when he rolled down the partition, they were shouting, “Smoke, smoke!” and “Pull over, pull over!”
Passersby quickly pulled three to safety, though two were in critical condition Monday. One woman managed to squeeze through the partition between the passenger section and the driver's compartment, Brown told authorities.
But five others, including the bride whose marriage they were celebrating, became trapped."
I guess this driver won't be awarded hero status. Sounds like he ran. Unfortunately, not before OPENING THE DOORS.

They posted a pic of the bride and she wasn't fat, she was thin. Most Filipinos are thin people not fats, as I said before, chubby maybe & short certainly but not over 150.

They%20still%20have%20skinny%20asian%20genes

That W&W is one of the most lol ones ever. Even though I've only heard of Marlo and wouldn't get the reference, the Alicia was enough.

[quote]They posted a pic of the bride and she wasn't fat, she was thin.
Not thin enough...

I read that they are all nurses from the same community health center in Fresno. It's going take some doing to replace them.

There goes the bride. Poof.

Spending your bachelorette party at Sizzler.
Tacky.

[quote]The passengers in the back were sitting on a full tank of gas probably.
Don't look at me. I was in the Hamptons with Jeffrey.

Ina%20G.

[quote]Spending your bachelorette party at Sizzler.
Literally!

[quote]I read that they are all nurses from the same community health center in Fresno. It's going take some doing to replace them.
This actually is the reason why my last workplace actively discouraged employee friendships outside of work.
No, I'm not kidding.
As you can imagine, this policy made it rather difficult to forge employee friendships AT work, resulting in a bunch of unhappy, not-close people.

Five Fraus Fried in Frisco!

What type of work did you do, R108? That's awfully intrusive.

Way to hit the punchline with a sledgehammer, R107.

rolling%20eyes%20as%20i%20type%20this

R110, I worked for an alarm monitoring station.
We received both residential and commercial alarm signals: burglar alarms, fire, medical buttons, panic buttons, businesses opening and closing, etc.
We only had maybe 20 total staff, with only 2-5 working at any given time.
So, if one person was to, say, die in a car wreck, the company would be out one employee.
However, if five employees were friends and were all hanging out and died in a car wreck, the company would then be out five employees, which is a hell of a lot more inconvenient.
I understand the reasoning, but still, they were total cunts about it.

r108

Couldn't the company just simplified matters by asking employees to take separate transportation? Like the POTUS and the VP never travel together...

I was the Samantha!

charred corpse in stilettos

R113, you'd think so, wouldn't you?
Nah, they just didn't give a fuck about our quality of life.
Perfect example: we worked 12-hour shifts, 3 days on and 3 days off.
One Xmas party was held on the first day after a 3-day shift just ended; in other words, the overnight employees got off work at 8 am, and had to go to the Xmas party that night.
Real fucking considerate!